Jeb Butler

Being a lawyer isn’t about flash and glory. Winning a case for your client takes work, focus, and discipline. The made-for-TV moments are few and far between. Winning your client’s case means doing the little things right, from the first time you shake your client’s hand until you hand them a check. Winning doesn’t depend on a single moment of creative brilliance – it isn’t that easy. Winning means grinding it out.  Winning means digging deep into the facts before the case is filed, pressing the defense to turn over the evidence, crafting unanswerable deposition questions, revising your briefs until they are perfect, and obsessively preparing for trial.  Winning also requires confidence and execution, but there are many lawyers who can do that.  What sets Jeb and our firm apart is what nobody ever sees.  It’s the unglamorous gruntwork.  It’s reviewing hundreds of thousands of documents to find the one smoking gun.  It’s the little things that we do over the months and years that a case is pending.  As Jeb’s father has long said, you build a case like you build a house – one brick at a time.  It’s not about flash and glory. Jeb likes being a lawyer.  That isn’t true of all lawyers – there are many who would rather be doing something else.  But you can’t work as hard as Jeb does or build a firm like this one unless you like what you’re doing.  Jeb likes helping people.  He likes the intellectual challenges that practicing law brings.  But if you ask him, he’ll usually admit that even more than that, he likes beating adversaries who deserve to be beaten and winning cases that bring about change. Jeb says that he has been lucky to work on several cases that have made systemic changes.  He was part of the trial team that won a $150,000,000 verdict in a product liability case after Chrysler put the gas tanks in certain Jeeps right next to the rear bumper – which no manufacturer does anymore.  He handled a police chase case that resulted in policy changes to better protect innocent lives.  He has worked on cases involving a hospital chain that regularly falsified its medical records to get more money from Medicare and he won a $500,000 verdict on behalf of a woman who had been sexually abused by her pastor for nearly a decade and whom the pastor had publicly accused of lying.  Other case results that can be publicly disclosed include a $45,000,000 settlement in a motorcycle accident case, a $3,973,260 settlement after a boating accident, and a $1,250,000 settlement in a pedestrian case.  He has obtained several other multimillion-dollar settlements that cannot be disclosed for confidentiality reasons.  Cases like these can make a difference not only for our clients, but for others who walk in similar shoes.